Man looking for women obsessed with avoiding disease

Hey I just wanted to let you know that there are women out there who are like this. I am one of them, I'm happily married, but I know what you are talking about. I don't see it as being OCD I see it as not wanting to spread anything or get anything as being smart. I had to take my daughter to the doctor today and I'm now freaking out about deadly viruses that resist drugs and that we may have contracted it there.

Nobody wants to contract diseases. If you meet a woman and want to marry her you should go to a clinic with her and have her tested for STDs. A lot of men and women do that to avoid getting STDs. Praying you find the right one for you.

Question - wouldn't you just be raising your children in an upbringing of OCD as well? Sounds like you would be perpetuating an unhealthy OCD trait in the family this way.

I have germophobic OCD as well, so I can totally relate, but it seems to me like you would just be continuing the problem; even nurturing it.

Hi Ty,
I have had differing themes with my OCD and there have been seasons where normal/reasonable efforts to try and stay healthy have become obsessive fears. You used the words "freaking out" about how you felt after taking your daughter to the doctor. That pretty much describes how, even if you do take normal precautions, OCD will still cause you intense anxiety because "what if" the precautions weren't good enough. And trust me, with health OCD your precautions and cleanliness will never be good enough. The more you add to these measures the greater fear of getting sick will become. You will fear germs and contaminations more and more and more. You will begin to avoid things that you used to be able to do without fear etc. With OCD the avoidance and all the excessive precautions only validate the fear that you might get sick, so you end up worse off in the end. If that starts happening or actually is already happening then I would be highly suspicious that you are suffering from a form of OCD. If you ruminate about germs, contamination and illness in many differing settings, then, yes you probably have this form of OCD. It can get really bad if you don't start to learn to live with uncertainty in this regard. I don't know if any of this relates to what you experience but I just wanted to share how it is with me when my OCD is attacking me in regard to illness or diseases just in case there's the tiniest possibility that maybe the fear of germs has gone beyond what is normal. Praying for you... to stay healthy in every regard. Mitzi PS.. Just as an example, I was going to avoid working in the nursery at my church because of all the baby germs. If I'd done that I would have been avoiding and would have become even more fearful of getting sick. Instead I stuck it out and exposed myself with all those babies, runny noses, poopy diapers and all and I felt so much better for it.

tyield1102 said:

Hey I just wanted to let you know that there are women out there who are like this. I am one of them, I'm happily married, but I know what you are talking about. I don't see it as being OCD I see it as not wanting to spread anything or get anything as being smart. I had to take my daughter to the doctor today and I'm now freaking out about deadly viruses that resist drugs and that we may have contracted it there.

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I'm sure there are women out there you have the same concerns as yourself. Just keep looking.